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Everything posted by notin
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Texas has had one season above .500 since 2017. And THIS is the season you can’t believe? (Hint: Maybe 2023 was the fluke.)
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Was it the Pfister Hotel? Very haunted! Of course, so are most of the Airbnb’s in that neighborhood…
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Hindsight makes lots of decisions easier. Also makes lotteries more winnable…
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But wasn’t Sale a big part of the reason the Sox were needy in that area? From 2020 through 2023, he was the highest paid pitcher on the Sox each year, making iver $100mill in that timeframe, and in that 4 year stretch, he pitched 151 IP with a record of 11-7, 3.93. Was he part of the problem or part of the solution?
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Vaughn Grissom
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But always derogatory. And Duran is a professional ball player who used it on a paying customer. Not common in that instance, either. It didn’t mean he’s a bad person; just a guy whose emotions got the best of him. A two game punishment is fine…
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What if Texas kicks in half? Not unprecedented…
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Fatigue leading to reduced velocity? https://www.fangraphs.com/players/kutter-crawford/20531/graphs?position=P&statArr=6&legend=1%2C2&split=base&time=daily&ymin=&ymax=&start=2022&end=2024&rtype=mult>1=15&dStatArray=FA
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I’m sure Texas would kick in a rather significant portion…
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They made one and never got to use him. The problem was not replacing Giolito. Montgomery was available and I think Snell might have been as well…
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There’s been a migration towards acceptance of casual profanity for a while now. I remember when you couldn’t say “damn” on network TV, and now I go to a priest who says “no you f***ing didn’t!” to me during confession…
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Was there a time when what Duran did was considered polite?
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So do you think the Sox should trade for Jake deGrom this off-season? He’s only got 3 years / $115 mill left on that deal…
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There’s a difference between general profanity and the use of epithets targeted at a particular group…
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I hoped on this guy for 4 years to come back and lead the Sox like he’s doing here. Maybe even 5 years, since he was nowhere near this effective back in 2019. I get why the Sox tried to move him. But this deal and everything around couldn’t have gone more wrong…
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He only went 7 innings twice since 2019. His comeback is unprecedented….
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Or keep actively pursuing pitchers as teams clear out 40 man roster space. It’s possible another team might dump a few contracts to get under the tax threshold like the Angels did last year. Toronto and the Cubs are candidates. Kyle Hendricks anyone?
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Flashes, yes. But even the Braves wouldn’t give up anything for him unless the Sox paid the bulk of the fare. And Sale did injure his shoulder shortly after that game. Again, with Sale it was never a question of ability. But there were questions of durability and availability…
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And if Sale had been able to throw even one outing like that since 2019, he’d probably still be here…
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Ever heard him doing it before? Or pretending you know Duran? I think the missed story here is this happened so soon after Billy Bean died…
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His ability in this case was the ability to not use homophobic slurs at random fans…
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
notin replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Roberts’ stolen base seems overrated to me. The Sox ended that inning with the bases loaded. It’s very possible he would have been forced home one way or another. But what no one mentions ever is Millar working the walk off Rivera in the first place. Without that walk, there’s no one for Roberts to pinch run for… -
Every player public apology in history has sounded rehearsed, orchestrated, and/or insincere…
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I feel complimented that I think like someone nicknamed “The Brain”…
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There are rules regarding position players pitching. A team has to be trailing by at least 8 runs. The leading team can only use a non-pitcher in the ninth inning of a game and must be up by 10 runs. Also, as using a non-pitcher is a white flag on the game, opposing hitters have a brother-in-law code. They don’t take pitches or work walks. They just swing at anything close. There’s some fun footage of Max Scherzer (then with the Mets) yelling at Pete Alonso for taking pitches in a game like this, calling him out for worrying about his stats. Anthony Rendon famously turned around and made his first ever PA as a left-handed hitter against a non-pitcher (and homered, giving him a career 5.000 OPS from the left side). Put Smith in a regular game and he would get pummeled, assuming he found the strike zone at all…
